2006 Olympic team biography!
References: www.ussnowboarding.org, www.lindseyjacobellis.com, www.usolympicteam.com. As an artist, Charles topped the Hot 100 three times in the 1960s, but always with other writers' songs. Olympic Team. By reaching number-one, "Gold Digger" gave Charles his first Hot 100 chart-topper as a songwriter, credited as a result of the "I Got a Woman" sample. Today she is on a deferment from the University of Vermont until she can fulfill her dreams of competing in the Olympic Winter Games as a member of the U.S. On the Pop 100, "Gold Digger" also broke a record by jumping from number 94 to number-two, giving West the record for the biggest ever jump on that chart. Determined to project a positive image for snowboarding athletes, she is well-spoken and amazingly mature for her age, choosing to swap years of high school memories to travel the world for her sport. "Gold Digger" also became West's first Top 10 single on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, peaking at number-two.
She began racing SBX at the suggestion of a friend who said her speed and agility made her a natural to be successful in the discipline. The song spent ten weeks at the top of the Hot 100 until rising Hip-Hop/R&B star Chris Brown's hit "Run It!" shot up to the pole position for the week of November 19.
She entered the sport in the halfpipe at age 10 in 1996 at the urging of her brother. The jump ended the fourteen-week run of Carey's "We Belong Together" at number-one, and kept Carey's "Shake It Off" from replacing "We Belong Together" as the number-one single. For fun, the siblings spend each summer creating trails for their all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and wakeboarding on the local lake. The high digital download sales helped propel the song from number-nineteen to number-one in one week, the fifth highest jump ever to that position on the Hot 100. Between seasons in 2004, Lindsey modeled for Seventeen and cross-trained with her brother, Ben. "Gold Digger" has sold over 1,000,000 downloads during its seven weeks of release.
While her noticeable natural wavy hair was cut back in 2002 to make a wig for “Locks of Love,” an organization helping chemotherapy patients who are losing hair, Lindsey is as radiant as ever, with a vibrant personality and a style off the slopes that helps her stand out in the crowd. The song broke the record for the most digital downloads sold in one week, and the record for the fastest selling digital single of all time, both previously held by Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl". She carries herself with confidence and is one of the toughest women in the sport today, with her demanding schedule riding both the halfpipe and snowboard cross. Approximately 80,000 digital downloads of "Gold Digger" were sold through on legal music services such as iTunes and Napster in that first week, making it the most successful digital sales debut ever. Olympic Team hopeful successfully competing in two snowboarding disciplines. When Late Registration was released, the album version of "Gold Digger" was first made available for download. with a thousand-watt smile and is the only U.S. Their concerns were unfounded as "Gold Digger" became a success, hitting number one on the Hot 100, Pop 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and the Hot Rap Tracks charts.
She’s a rising young star in the U.S. Following the chart performance of "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", which failed to crack the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, West's label became concerned with how a follow up single would perform.
Lindsey Jacobellis stands out with her long, curly, golden locks of hair, her easy-going personality and all those tricks she performs on her snowboard. Foxx is also present, lip-synching both his own parts and the Ray Charles vocal sample. During the 2003-2004 season, she competed in both disciplines, winning every snowboard cross competition she entered and capturing back-to-back World Cup wins in both disciplines. The titles of the magazines the women appear on the cover of reflect the correlating verses in the song. The 2005 World Champion in SBX, Lindsey is also an Olympic medal favorite in the halfpipe. Shot in a CinemaScope letterbox format, using stylized art direction with few props, the video features performances shots of West intercut with footage of Williams' trademark female video models depicted as "pin-up" cover models from fictional vintage magazines.
She has a chance to compete in Torino in halfpipe and her specialty, snowboard cross (SBX), which will be a first-time Olympic event in 2006. The song's music video was directed by Hype Williams, who also directed West's previous video, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone". Olympic Team. In an ironic final twist which punctuates the sarcasm inherent in the song, West points out that when that hopeful and ambitious broke man finally gets "put on", however, he is very likely to "leave your ass for a white girl.".
Lindsey is one of the bright, new medal prospects for the 2006 U.S. West urges his female listeners to stick with their man, even if he is a dishwasher or cook at a fast-food restaurant, instead of going after the men with the money.
• 2005 Snowboard World Champion (snowboard cross)
• 2005 Overall Grand Prix Champion (halfpipe)
• 2004 Niigata Joetsu-Kokusai, Japan World Cup Champion (halfpipe)
• 2004 Mountain Creek Grand Prix (halfpipe), second
• Three-time Winter X Games Champion (snowboard cross) (2003-2005)
• 2003 Junior Worlds Champion (halfpipe)
• 2002 Junior Worlds Champion (snowboard cross). She even lies to her man about the paternity of her child, resulting in the man supporting the child for 18 years until he discovers he is not the father.
Height: 5’5”
Date of Birth: 8/19/1985
Hometown: Stratton Mountain, Vt.
Resides: Belmont, Vt.
Event: Halfpipe, Snowboard Cross. "Now I ain't saying she a gold digger," West tells his audience, "but she ain't messin with no broke niggas." The woman spends money her man gives her to buy her kid's toys on liposuction and plastic surgery (West comments that the woman was "supposed to buy your shorty (child) tyco wit' your money", but instead "went to the doctor and got "lipo" wit' your money"). . In the song, West and Foxx deliver a tongue-in-cheek criticism of a woman who falsely seduces a man under the true pretense of spending his money, playing into the stereotype of African-American young women as being gold diggers. The two also worked on Foxx's latest album, and West features on Foxx's song "Extravaganza". The song is the second collaboration between Foxx and West, following "Slow Jamz" with Twista.
Though he is given full credit as a featured artist on "Gold Digger," Jamie Foxx's only vocal contribution is the a cappella introduction to the song, an interpolation of Charles's "I Got a Woman" (Foxx opens the song with the line "She take my money/when I'm in need/Yeah she's a trifling/friend indeed," a twist on Charles' original lyrics, "She gives me money/when I'm in need/Yeah she's a kind/of friend to me." A sample of Charles singing the original is repeated throughout the song). The song is built around both a vocal interpolation and a sample of "I Got a Woman", originally performed by Ray Charles and written by Charles and Renald Charles. "Gold Digger" was written by Kanye West, and co-produced by West and Jon Brion. .
As of December 10th 2005, "Gold Digger" was nominated for "Record of the Year" for the 2006 Grammy Awards. It is 2005's second-longest running #1 on The Billboard Hot 100 at 10 weeks, behind Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together". The single broke a record for the most digital downloads in a week, selling over 80,000 digital downloads, and is also the fastest selling digital download of all time. Based upon elements of the Ray Charles song "I Got a Woman", "Gold Digger" features Jamie Foxx, who portrayed Charles in the 2004 feature film Ray, imitating Charles' vocal style.
The second single from West's second album, Late Registration, "Gold Digger" peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming West's and Foxx's second number-one single after 2003's "Slow Jamz" with Twista. "Gold Digger" is a 2005 number-one single recorded by Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx, and released by Roc-a-Fella Records.